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[Greatness942]

You can open up the picture in your editor of choice to get a closer look, but here's what I drew:

Shub-Niggurath (based on her appearance in Quake)

Hastur, the King in Yellow

A W.I.P "Thief" Cultist

A black Shoggoth from the actual short story "At the Mountains of Madness"

[snow dwarf]

@Urist
You don't have to create all the poses, most of us actually don't till we actually use them in battle, however it's good to have at least a walking and idle poses.
@Greatness
The thief is nice, however the shub-niggurath, could use some more defining details that make it look like a creature not a building, the shogguth as well. While the king could use a more human and flowing pose
Example:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

These indians were the first army I learned to draw "flowing poses",  upper sprites are "square" indians that I created when starting and the bottom guy is when I figured out that the upper guys looked bad. Note that the bottom guy is not and you probably don't won't a macho king (unless you do), but you get the idea.

[Greatness942]

I guess it could be higher in quality, but I based it off of this:

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Looks pretty similar, but I guess I could make it bigger. I'm not sure how to define the Shoggoth more, as it's described as "It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train — a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter", so if you could give a suggestion to make it more like that, I would appreciate it. I will gladly admit that Hastur needs a bit more work for his robe.

[Greatness942]

*bump of advice*

[Urist McScoopbeard]

My suggestion would be to A.) make it bigger, as it is indeed described as quite large, and B.) consider making it a segmented kind of hero unit.

My best guess is that it's a worm-type thing, if you make it large enough you can simply insert it into most tunnels and trim the sprite after placement to have it appear behind the foreground and appear to be filling the tunnel. BUT THATS GOING OFF THE WRITTEN DESCRIPTION.

If you want to *base* a design off of the reference picture you have--I would suggest then still making it a bit larger, giving it legs, and make it more bubbly and gross looking. It's a little stiff too--it IS a lovecraftian creature after all, make it writhe and wriggle, slobbering and screeching wherever it goes. And finally, some shading would go a long way to giving it some depth, which I think would lessen a lot of these problems.

EDIT: Speaking of segments, I'm already realizing I have to go back to the drawing board on my robo-mob... that third dimension will look weird af on a map. I have to make it flatter!

[Greatness942]

So, in other words, put in more of everything? I like it. Sure, I'll do that later.

Also, I'm going to divide it up to respond in a bit more detail:

Shoggoth: The segmented hero in the tunnel. I like that. Makes it more Lovecraftian in nature.

Shub-Niggurath: Yeah, if I make it bigger, I can put in more details. And stuff like the writhing, the gross looking texture and bubbling, and the shading can be put in easier if she's big.

[snow dwarf]

EpicJ showed up and said he can join. If Asgarus has time to play we will accept him into our match, unless you guys want a bigger (more than four people) match.

I'm also thinking of starting a "finding people to play thread" so that we can keep this for WIP. Should I?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

yea probably, but maybe not? This could be the PW general kind of creative thread?

[snow dwarf]

yea probably, but maybe not? This could be the PW general kind of creative thread?

Ok, sure

[Greatness942]

Spoiler: Upgraded Sketchpad (click to show/hide)

[stefman]

I think that you should avoid using straight lines when spriting something living, even if it is Shub-Niggurath   If you look to your reference pic closely, you'll clearly will see that. Here's how I see it, basing on your sprite:

I have to admit that your shading skill is good, keep it up!

[snow dwarf]

I think the legs should be thicker, or you could remove them. The Shoggoth could use a more round like shape and the eyes could use some more strategical placement, so they look like eyes.
By the way, I will be starting a match thread for you guys on Friday if that's fine.

[Greatness942]

That's fine!

That's a good point. Even us humans bend and twist, so something Lovecraftian would do it moreso. I'll redraw the "Jail Cell" lines, the legs, and the Shoggoth right now.

EDIT:

[stefman]

Shoggot's top is still flat. Also, tentacles are commonly thinner at their ends and thicker in places where they're connected to the body.

[Greatness942]

Spoiler: Will this work? (click to show/hide)